The Binoche et Giquello auction house will hold an auction entitled “Alexandre Trauner – Jacques Prévert Une œuvre cinématographique” featuring correspondence, drawings, notebooks, collages and photographs taken between 1932 and 1976. All of these documents (304 lots) will be on view in Salle 4 of the Hôtel Drouot on Tuesday, October 23, from 11h to 18h, and Wednesday, October 24, from 11h to 12h. The auction will be held on Wednesday, October 24, in same room at 14h30, and will be be overseen by Serge Plantureux for the photographs and Claude Oterelo for the manuscripts and paintings. The catalogues for these auctions quickly become collector’s items, which will surely be the case for this sale, which follows the course of Trauner’s career, “Trau” to his friends, which included Pierre and Jacques Prévert, Paul Grimault and the Allégret brothers in France, and Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder and Duke Ellington in Hollywood.

Read the full text of this article by Bernard Perrine in the French version of Le Journal.

Auction
Alexandre Trauner-Jacques Prévert
Une œuvre cinématographique

On October 24th, 2012
Hôtel Drouot, salle 4
9 rue Drouot
75009 Paris - France
Experts : Serge Plantureux

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auction@photoceros.com

Claude Oterelo
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claudeoterelo@aol.com

Binoche et Giquello
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75008 Paris - France
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